Crimson Titles? Alabama 2016 National Phantom Champs Merchandise

The Tigers finally did it, our phantom champions from last season at Clemson rolled away the tide to get their revenge to the tune of 35-31 in last night’s NCAA Bowl Championship Series finale. The win was Clemson’s first national football title since 1981 and stopped Alabama from winning back-to-back championships after their victory last January.

Here we have a small sampling of “phantom championship” merchandise — the caps, t-shirts, and other items that would have been produced had Alabama gotten just one extra touchdown and won the game.

As you can see they had a “Back to Back Champs” logo all ready to go:

They also produced designs for two of the semi-finalists, Ohio State and Washington:

I’m not enough of a college sports fan to understand what “THE” significance of that Ohio State shirt is. If you know please share in the comments.